Tootfinder

Q&A with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan on new AI tools to help creators, YouTube's dominance on TVs, helping creators better monetize sponsorships, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-y…

An Interview with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan About Building a Stage for Creators
An interview with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan about empowering creators while leaning into AI.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI,
--Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled,
--People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems,
--Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, …

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/11/25
The time is now to end cybersecurity with AI, Prosecutors say PowerSchool hacker was skilled, People with facial differences struggle with digital identity systems, Autistic teens can't grasp ramifications of digital crimes, Online predator groups can kill teens, Crypto ATMs rip off scam victims

LIVE: Trump meets with Zelenskyy and European leaders at White House: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/live-trump-meets-with-zelenskyy.html

from my link log —
The problem with single-threaded shared mutability.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/05/17/the-problem-with-shared-mutability/
saved 2020-03-03

Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements ⛑️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 ⛑️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

https://theonion.com/secretary-of-the-macabre-unveils-initiative-to-fill-nations-empty-eye-sockets-with-maggots/

Secretary Of The Macabre Unveils Initiative To Fill Nation’s Empty Eye Sockets With Maggots
WASHINGTON—In remarks delivered to the White House press corps, the U.S. Secretary of the Macabre unveiled a new departmental initiative Friday that aims to fill the nation’s empty eye sockets with federally funded maggots. “Making use of $50 million allocated by Congress under the Befouling of Our Remains Act, the Department of the Macabre will […]

Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with Piano Street
#piano #Chopin
https://www.piano…

Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!
PIANO NEWS: An article about Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us! from the Piano Street Magazine.

Good morning!
Here are some photos from the #Mummelsee in the #Schwarzwald . We wanted to visit it last year already but somehow just managed to go there this time.
The lake itself is scenic and beautiful. But definitely a "hot spot". Luckily we were there at a day/time w…

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

@…
In case you've missed it. About linux desktop on arm
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Where-are-w…

Chiefs in danger zone with impotent offense, while Steelers disappoint on defense; plus, 3 NFL closers https://www.nfl.com/news/chiefs-in-danger-zone-with-impotent-offense-while-steelers-disappoint-on-defense-plus-3-nfl-c…

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave?
Honestly, I think livestream: dance on other legislators’ desks. Mock w/parody lyrics from show-tunes, raid copier paper to stuff empty suits and print out opposition faces and put them in seats & act out humiliating legislative scenes.
You’re not locked in with them, their seats are locked in with you.
h/t @peoplefor.bsky.social

My latest blog entry is an off-the-cuff interview of ChatGPT about the meaning of consciousness.
Philosophical Dialogues with AI, by @…
https://

Philosophical Dialogues with AI
Wherein I explore some aspects of moral philosophy with ChatGPT-5

"A nest with a chick brings rare hope for hooded vultures in South Africa"
#SouthAfrica #Birds #Vultures

A nest with a chick brings rare hope for hooded vultures in South Africa
In rare good news for vultures in Africa, conservationists have confirmed the first-ever nest of a hooded vulture containing a chick in KwaZulu-Natal, a province in southeast South Africa. That marks the southernmost recorded nesting site of the critically endangered vulture species, according to KwaZulu-Natal-based nonprofit Wildlife ACT. “It gives us as conservationists some new […]

This reporting doesn't make clear the resolution is nonbinding: the departments are free to blow off not just the "deadlines" but the requested actions as well.
It does signal priorities the supervisors may go on to weigh at budget time, when evaluating mayoral appointees that need confirmation, or negotiating with Lurie about legislation he wants passed. But it may be a weak signal because supes who signed onto this did so knowing it was nonbinding.

Supervisors approve new traffic safety plan with deadlines for city departments
After San Francisco’s policy on traffic safety expired at the end of 2024, city supervisors on Tuesday adopted a new plan to curb traffic fatalities and injuries on city streets. The Board of Supervisors passed the Street Safety Act, sponsored by District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, that includes actions with deadlines for seven city departments, […]

For some reason the combination of 160K and my Mitutoyo 100x/0.90 objective means that as the last bits of ILD begin to etch away, substrate features become *less* visible.
I expected to see strong contrast at edges of substrate features when the ILD was etched away despite poly, STI trenches, and diffusion areas all being the same material (silicon).
But that's not what I'm seeing.
Going back to my archives, though, most of my good full die 100x shots are with the …

I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol

Reachability is Decidable for ATM-Typable Finitary PCF with Effect Handlers
Ryunosuke Endo, Tachio Terauchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12572 https://arxiv.…

Reachability is Decidable for ATM-Typable Finitary PCF with Effect Handlers
It is well known that the reachability problem for simply-typed lambda calculus with recursive definitions and finite base-type values (finitary PCF) is decidable. A recent paper by Dal Lago and Ghyselen has shown that the same problem becomes undecidable when the language is extended with algebraic effect and handlers (effect handlers). We show that, perhaps surprisingly, the problem becomes decidable even with effect handlers when the type system is extended with answer type modification (ATM…

Sources: Oracle is in discussions with Meta to provide computing power for training and deploying AI models, in a deal worth about $20B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/oracle-in-talks-with-meta-…

Oracle in Talks With Meta on $20 Billion AI Cloud Computing Deal
Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. for a cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, providing further evidence that the company has become a significant infrastructure provider.

Legends With Bevo
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

And that's a wrap - the newly refreshed laptop has been handed over to teen with most of the packages functional. Thanks for following along on this @… installation journey with me and thanks to all #linux maintainers, forum contributors and FOSS advocates around keeping the system running.
👏 WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU!👏
The final judgement won't be clear until Monday when the first log in at school happens but hopefully it will be successful, or the IT support is going to have to deal with some very salty comments (from me).
16/16
FIN

Quantum Control of Thermal Emission from Photonic Crystals with Two-Level Atoms
Chih-Wei Wang, Jhih-Sheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11191 https://arxiv…

Quantum Control of Thermal Emission from Photonic Crystals with Two-Level Atoms
Thermal light engineering is a field of considerable interest and potential. We study quantum light-matter interactions in a one-dimensional photonic crystal with two-level atoms as the active medium, replacing classical oscillators in traditional blackbody models. In a thermal bath with pumping, these atoms modulate thermal emission via interactions with photonic modes. The model with quantum two-level systems enables the processes of spontaneous emission, stimulated absorption, and stimulated…

Cardinals QB Kyler Murray out vs. Packers, will miss 2nd straight game with foot injury https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cardinals-qb-kyler-murray-out-vs-packers-will-miss-2nd-straight-game-with-foot-injury…

Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration With Targeted Mental Health Outreach: A Case Study in Machine Learning for Public Policy
Kit T. Rodolfa, Erika Salomon, Jin Yao, Steve Yoder, Robert Sullivan, Kevin McGuire, Allie Dickinson, Rob MacDougall, Brian Seidler, Christina Sung, Claire Herdeman, Rayid Ghani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14129

Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration With Targeted Mental Health Outreach: A Case Study in Machine Learning for Public Policy
Many incarcerated individuals face significant and complex challenges, including mental illness, substance dependence, and homelessness, yet jails and prisons are often poorly equipped to address these needs. With little support from the existing criminal justice system, these needs can remain untreated and worsen, often leading to further offenses and a cycle of incarceration with adverse outcomes both for the individual and for public safety, with particularly large impacts on communities of …

Interesting,
"One Token to rule them all - obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens"
https://dirkjanm.io/obtaining-global-admin-in-every-entra-id-tenant-with-actor-tokens/

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

While Silicon Valley is training their models on everybody’s copyrighted content and seems to get away with it, UMG is obviously using AI to flood YouTubers with automated copyright claims. Including people like Rick Beato who is doing interviews with the musicians who wrote those songs and talk about them. What does UMG think happens after people watch those videos? Exactly. They open Spotify and listen to the artist. It’s free advertising to >5 million subscribers.

Standing atop a seven-ton military truck with his wife, Vance watched the largest Marine exercise in a decade on Oct. 18,
featuring F-18 and F-35 flyovers,
parachute landings,
Navy Seals swimming ashore,
offshore destroyers and amphibious ships,
simulated village explosions,
and MH-60 helicopters dropping additional Seals over the water.
-- all to distract attention from the massive "No Kings" protests happening all across the country.

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

Ring to let police request user videos again
https://mashable.com/article/ring-video-sharing-with-the-police-again

Raiders report: Crosby exits early with knee, back injuries https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-crosby-exits-early-with-knee-back-injuries-3510204/

Do LLMs Align Human Values Regarding Social Biases? Judging and Explaining Social Biases with LLMs
Yang Liu, Chenhui Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13869 https://

Do LLMs Align Human Values Regarding Social Biases? Judging and Explaining Social Biases with LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) can lead to undesired consequences when misaligned with human values, especially in scenarios involving complex and sensitive social biases. Previous studies have revealed the misalignment of LLMs with human values using expert-designed or agent-based emulated bias scenarios. However, it remains unclear whether the alignment of LLMs with human values differs across different types of scenarios (e.g., scenarios containing negative vs. non-negative questions). In this…

#Python Friday #297: Progress Bars Everywhere With Tqdm
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/09/297-progress-bars-everywhere-with-tqdm/

#297: Progress Bars Everywhere With Tqdm - Python Friday
None

I just had a video chat over Signal with Nabil (@…) and I’d like to welcome him to the Gaza Verified family.
Nabil is a 33-year-old software engineer and was the founder and CEO of his own company in Gaza before it was destroyed by Israel.
He is also a father struggling to keep his child alive in Israel’s ongoing genocide and the resulting famine…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Andy Byron resigned from his job as CEO of Cincinnati-based Astronomer Inc., according to a statement posted on LinkedIn by the company Saturday.
Astronomer is an American data operations technology company, specializing in artificial intelligence, with a valuation of $1 billion.
#AI

Most United Nations workers killed on duty last year were killed by Israel in Palestinian territories, 181 out of 383.
"(...)383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year(...)"
"The [Gaza] Strip saw 181 humanitarian workers killed in 2024, with 60 more fatalities in Sudan. More widely, violence against aid workers increased in 21 countries in 2024 compared to the previous year, with State actors the most common perpetrators".

World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
With the news on Tuesday that a record 383 aid workers were confirmed killed in the line of duty last year, one veteran UN aid worker based in Gaza reaffirmed the resolve of humanitarians everywhere to save lives and relieve suffering, no matter how challenging the situation.

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography

When I do web dev, I don’t just work in the DOM, I put on a pencil moustache and work in the MANDOM.
Pat didn’t know it when he made the shirt, but it’s a guys’ web dev shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/78574049-mandom
(Or a shifter smut lady book club tank, as it t…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
CALLY: But pointless revenge, it doesn't achieve anything.
VILA: We're going home ... to Earth. Does it have to matter why? [Tarrant moves game piece]
[Servalan's ship brings one man patrol vessel into bay]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/27

#ice

My Career Opportunities With ICE
Uncle Sam wants to hire me to get rid of the worst of the worst.

A Kac system interacting with two heat reservoirs
Federico Bonetto, Michael Loss, Matthew Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13122 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A Kac system interacting with two heat reservoirs
We study a system formed by $M$ particles moving in 3 dimension and interacting with 2 heat reservoirs with $N>>M$ particles each. The system and the reservoirs evolve and interact via random collision described by a Kac-type master equation. The initial state of the reservoirs is given by 2 Maxwellian distributions at temperature $T_+$ and $T_-$. We show that, for times much shorter than $\sqrt{N}$ the interaction with the reservoirs is well approximated by the interaction with 2 Maxwellian th…

Zelensky says he will discuss territory with Putin as Ukraine signals readiness for unconditional peace talks with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/zelensky-says-he-will-discuss.html

Agentic AI promises a swift revolution for cybersecurity defenders, with one expert calling it a "Cambrian explosion" and another likening it to "the fastest train ever made."
But it's a technology still in its infancy, and other experts caution CISOs to take it slow until the kinks can be worked out.
Check out my latest CSO piece on agentic AI for more details. Thanks to Jimmy Mesta of RAD Security, Andres Riancho and Hillai Ben-Sasson of Wiz, Ben Seri of…

Agentic AI promises a cybersecurity revolution — with asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm.

Moody Urbanity - Odes III 🎵
情绪化城市 - 颂 III 🎵
📷 Zeiss Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

When Family Comes First – Spending time with them all #connection #family https://muz4now.com/2023/when-f…

When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Meta rolls out AI-powered voice translations for creators on Facebook and Instagram globally, supporting English-Spanish translations with lip syncing (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/meta

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish | TechCrunch
The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages for a broader audience.

Packers hit with nightmare travel day after flight to Arizona gets delayed more than five hours

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers

And here are the last two #photos from my bike&hike recently. the one shows one of the (in my point of view) interesting geological parts of the hike. And in the second I tried to get some more foreground into the photo
I hope you enjoy the view as much as I enjoyed the hike up there 🙂
And I wonder if we could see the home area of @…

Teenager has just suggested some of the programs, which I was under the impression were via the browser, may need to be on desktop.
This might mean Wine I guess?
And probably some kind of microsoft office install? I was hoping to get away with libreoffice..
Anybody have any experience with wine?
I will in any case have to contact the IT support at the school I think. I hope I am not the only parent doing so with the #EndOf10 .
Meanwhile, over on the laptop, the Linux Mint is installed (in danish even) and seems to be restarting without the USB
holding breath here...
🤞
13/n

Meta rolls out AI-powered voice translations for creators on Facebook and Instagram globally, supporting English-Spanish translations with lip syncing (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/meta

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish | TechCrunch
The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages for a broader audience.

The Tangerine Tyrant is a clear and present danger to the American People and the national security of the United States.
"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and 'respect for human rights.'"

Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

from my link log —
Basic dependency injection with objects in OCaml.
https://gr-im.github.io/a/dependency-injection.html
saved 2025-08-18

Standing atop a seven-ton military truck with his wife, Vance watched the largest Marine exercise in a decade on Oct. 18,
featuring F-18 and F-35 flyovers,
parachute landings,
Navy Seals swimming ashore,
offshore destroyers and amphibious ships,
simulated village explosions,
and MH-60 helicopters dropping additional Seals over the water.
-- all to distract attention from the massive "No Kings" protests happening all across the country.

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

So Zelensky does the first meeting with Trump, he surely has prepared this fully with the european leaders which will join in the second meeting. My guess, they first of all don't want to leave with a fight, no outcome is better then a heated argument. The best outcome is probably some kind of common approach, no matter how vague. If it gets the Putin approach from the table it is a win.
#Zelensky

Russians with spy ties behind 2024 parcel explosions in Europe, Lithuania says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russians-with-spy-ties-behind.html

Raiders coach Pete Carroll speaks with media after practice — WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-coach-pete-carroll-speaks-with-media-after-practice-watch-live-3463189/

Dallas should escape New York with another win https://insidethestar.com/dallas-should-escape-new-york-with-another-win

"Labor reveals $1.1bn plan to replace petrol with fuels made from canola, sorghum and sugar"
#Australia #Energy

Quantum Metrology of Spin Sensing with Free Space Electrons
Santiago Beltr\'an-Romero, Michael Gaida, Philipp Haslinger, Dennis R\"atzel, Stefan Nimmrichter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14982

Quantum Metrology of Spin Sensing with Free Space Electrons
Recent advances in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have opened the path toward spin resonance spectroscopy with single-spin sensitivity. To assess this potential, we investigate the quantum precision limits for sensing magnetic moments with free-electron probes. Using a scattering model where an electron wavepacket interacts with a localized spin, we study two metrological tasks: estimating the magnitude of the magnetic moment and discriminating the presence of a spin. The sensitivity fo…

Post shared with me by @… about twenty minutes ago when I last heard from her to know she’s alive.
(israel’s occupation forces have surrounded her neighbourhood with tanks and are firing on houses and tents. The israeli genocide of the Palestinian people is being live streamed by its victims.)

City Features VII 🏙️
城市特征 VII 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capital (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/geologicai-cashes-in-on-data-centre-boom-with-60-5-…

GeologicAI cashes in on data centre boom with $60.5-million CAD Series B
Mining tech startup will use funding to scale globally as demand for critical minerals intensifies.

Panthers QB Bryce Young exits game vs. Jets with ankle injury https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-qb-bryce-young-exits-game-vs-jets-with-ankle-injury

Belarus seeks talks with Kyiv amid efforts to break Western isolation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/belarus-seeks-talks-with-kyiv.html

The DOJ has charged alleged Scattered Spider member Thalha Jubair, a UK national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.
https://www.

United Kingdom National Charged in Connection with Multiple Cyber Attacks, Including on Critical Infrastructure
A complaint filed in the District of New Jersey was unsealed today charging Thalha Jubair, a United Kingdom national, with conspiracies to commit computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, in relation to at least 120 computer network intrusions and extortion involving 47 U.S. entities.

Las Vegas negotiating with NFL to host 2029 Super Bowl https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/football/super-bowl/las-vegas-negotiating-with-nfl-to-host-2029-super-bowl-3462531/

The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday discovered a suspicious hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport
with a direct sight line to where Donald Trump exits Air Force One.
The FBI is now leading an investigation into the discovery, Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, said in a statement

Secret Service discovers hunting stand with direct sight line to Trump's Air Force One exit in Florida
The U.S. Secret Service on Thursday discovered a suspicious hunting stand near Palm Beach International Airport with a direct sight line to where President Donald Trump exits Air Force One, the agency confirmed to NBC News on Sunday

Australia's ABC is barred from a Trump press conference in the UK for "logistical reasons" after an ABC reporter questioned Trump about his business activity (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/medi…

Bland makes history, joins elite company with latest pick-six https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/bland-makes-history-joins-elite-company-with-latest-pick-six

"New Mercedes-Benz Is First-Ever Car With A Vegan-Certified Interior"
#MercedesBenz #Cars #Vehicles

New Mercedes-Benz Is First-Ever Car With A Vegan-Certified Interior
The new electric Mercedes-Benz is the first car to offer vegan-certified interior fittings in partnership with The Vegan Society

Russia hits Kharkiv Oblast with new rocket-powered guided bomb for first time: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/russia-hits-kharkiv-oblast-with.html

Cowboys' Dak Prescott confident as ever: How partnership with Brian Schottenheimer has silenced naysayers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Previewing the Raiders week 3 matchup with the Commanders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/19/previewing-the-raiders-week-3-matchup-with-the-commanders/86222414007/…

The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel,
following a request by local authorities,
according to a statement issued by the city’s municipality.
Ravenna’s mayor, Alessandro Barattoni, said in a statement: 
“Thanks to courageous dockers,
we were informed last night of the scheduled arrival today of two containers to the Ravenna port” 
Ravenna, along with provincial leaders and the re…

Italian port refuses to load containers of explosives bound for Israel
The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel, following a request by local authorities, according to a statement issued by th…

Numeral, which provides AI-powered sales tax compliance software, raised a $35M Series B led by Mayfield at a $350M valuation, six months after an $18M Series A (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/numeral-raises-35m-to-automate-sal…

Numeral raises $35M to automate sales tax with AI | TechCrunch
The two-year-old sales tax startup Numeral is now valued at $350 million.

GB News plans to launch a DC bureau with live programming starting in September, including "The Late Show Live from DC", and aims to hire a US political editor (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-new

GB News to broadcast nightly from US in 'huge moment' for channel
GB News is launching a bureau in Washington DC and hiring its first US political editor in a "huge moment" for the broadcaster.

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Kaiir Elam on 'exciting' first game action with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kaiir-elam-on-exciting-first-game-action-with-cowboys

Who is Mitchell Tinsley? Bengals receiver stuns Commanders with two touchdowns during wild 20-second span

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/who-is-

Nexperia's China unit asserts its operational independence and compliance with Chinese laws amid escalating tensions with Nexperia Netherlands (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperia-china-unit…

Protesters and agents have clashed outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview,
where residents have become familiar with the burning sensation of tear gas on their skin.
A single father with no known history of violence was fatally shot by an ICE agent who said the man was trying to run him over.
The sight of agents chasing people and loading them into unmarked vehicles has become common throughout Chicago.
With no immediate regard for citizenshipor legal status…

Interviews with Shari Redstone and others detail her decision to sell her family's empire, Paramount's settlement with President Trump, her reputation, and more (James B. Stewart/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/busines

Why Did Shari Redstone Give Up Control of Paramount?
The media mogul spoke at length for the first time about selling her family’s empire, Paramount’s settlement with President Trump — and getting her reputation battered along the way.

Kaiir Elam on 'exciting' first game action with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/kaiir-elam-on-exciting-first-game-action-with-cowboys

A Garden Aloft ⛲️
空中花园 ⛲️
📷 Nikon FE
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Ukraine war latest: 'We'll give them very good protection, very good security' — Trump says in White House meeting with Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/ukraine-war-latest-well-give.html

Nvidia debuts the Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-transformer model, saying it achieves scores comparable to or better than Qwen3-8B on reasoning benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-rele

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning
Developers are free to create and distribute derivative models. Importantly, Nvidia does not claim ownership of any outputs generated...

Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with Donald Trump this week
After this call, in a shift of rhetoric, Trump indicated he would not supply Ukraine with long range cruise missiles

Putin reemphasized full Donetsk control as key to any deal while signaling possible compromises on Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts in Trump call, WP reports
Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, The Washington Post reported on Oct. 18, citing two senior U.S. officials.

Q&A with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan on new AI tools to help creators, YouTube's dominance on TVs, helping creators better monetize sponsorships, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-y…

An Interview with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan About Building a Stage for Creators
An interview with YouTube CEO Neil Mohan about empowering creators while leaning into AI.

Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2025

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use
The AI company declined to allow requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement.

Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025
Yang Zhenning dies at 103
•Not Even Wrong / by Peter Woit /
Oct 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103.
He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still with us.
His name is associated with two of the central ideas of what was to become the Standard Model.
In 1953, together with Robert Mills, he wrote down…

Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025
Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103. He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still wi…

Matt and Ross Duffer officially sign a four-year exclusive deal with Paramount for theatrical films, TV, and streaming projects, starting in April 2026 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Duffer Brothers Officially Move to Paramount With Exclusive Four-Year Deal
The ‘Stranger Things’ creators will create movie, TV and streaming projects for the studio, with a focus on tentpole films.

Nvidia and Intel announce a partnership to develop multiple new generations of x86 products; Nvidia will purchase $5B of Intel stock at $23.28 per share (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal
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TikTok launches Music On Stage 2025, a global contest for artists from 23 regions on TikTok Live; it will promote winners on its distribution platform SoundOn (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tik

TikTok expands live music competition strategy with Music On Stage ’25 contest
Contestants will advance through audience votes, small gifts, and judges’ bonus points.

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/stellantis-teams-up-w…

Stellantis teams up with Pony AI to develop robotaxis in Europe  | TechCrunch
The collaboration will integrate Pony’s self-driving software into Stellantis’ electric medium-size van platform, which is built with advanced sensors to support autonomous vehicles.

A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, new Meta Ray-Ban glasses, Meta AI updates, and more are expected (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-connec

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Gearing up for 'Hypernova' smart glasses with displays
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off Meta Connect 2025 with a keynote tonight, where we'll likely hear more a ton more about his plans for smart frames...